Happy March 14th! To many, today is Pi Day, but in St. Louis, it is also 314 Day after our region’s most common area code and a wonderful excuse to celebrate all things local!
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Happy International Women’s Day!
March 8th is International Women’s Day - and March, in general, is Women’s History Month - so, as a women-owned and operated organization, we’re all about it. March and International Women’s Day is a time to recognize the challenges facing women - both in our community and around the world.
It’s also time to celebrate our achievements, and the boss babes, and amazing women-owned businesses in the community. There’s a bit less happening in the community for international women’s day. But here are some of the things we’re doing.
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It may be more difficult and look a little different this year, but the holidays are definitely not canceled.
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Happy Small Business Saturday! Here at Spotlight On St. Louis, Small Biz Saturday is a holiday in and of itself! It’s the perfect day to get all of your Christmas shopping knocked out in one fell swoop, boost the local economy, and help your neighbors all in one fell swoop!
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Things are changing fast so we’re going to do our best to keep a list of those changes in the metro area with a separate post for food-related items. This is the everything else list. (We also have ideas of how to help here.)
This started as a list of all the places closed for the foreseeable future due to the COVID-19 outbreak but we’ve reached the point where we can just say: TLDR - It’s probably closed.
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You may have noticed several restaurants around town offering you the chance to join the #CricketChallenge in partnership with a local company, Mighty Cricket. Yep. It really does mean eating crickets - but in a powdered, unrecognizable form.
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The Central West End is a bit of a contradiction. Its experiencing growth and contraction, home to multi-millionaires and section 8 housing, upscale and sometimes a bit crime-ridden and shady... It’s so much, and yet it also deserves some more exploration and tender loving care.
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The Angad Arts Hotel is like no hotel you’ve seen before - and it’s right here in St. Louis.
“We tried to challenge the norms of what you think about in every instance,” said developer Steve Smith, Founding Principal and CEO of the Lawrence Group about the hotel that emerged from a $65 million dollar, five-year renovation of the old Missouri Theater Building in Grand Center.
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You’ve been able to hear Roland Johnson belting out his own take of Blues and Soul classics at regular gigs around town for years, but the singer semi-recently took his music to another level with the release of his first album of original music.
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The Missouri Botanical Garden spreads over 79 lovely acres in the Shaw neighborhood near Tower Grove Park. This natural oasis in St. Louis city was a passion project of Englishman Henry Shaw who moved to St. Louis as a young man and founded the garden in 1859. It is the nation’s oldest botanical garden in continuous operation and a National Historic Landmark - it’s also a fixture in many St. Louisans lives.
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